Lisa A. Lewis research videos

Accession Numbers

Physical Description

Dates

1983-1992

Restrictions

These tapes may not be copied under any circumstances and are limited strictly to viewing. Standard copyright laws apply.

Provenance and Acquisition Information

These videos were sent to the Center by Lisa Lewis in September 1995 and March and May of 2008. The videos are copies of television programs used for her research for articles, dissertation, and books.

Agency History/Biographical Sketch

Lisa Ann Lewis was born in Evansville Indiana 27 July 1956. She graduated from Antioch College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978, was awarded a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University in 1981 and received her doctorate from University of Texas at Austin in 1987.

While a student at Antioch College she worked as a high school teacher in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, a writer for Mountain Life and Work, a staff worker for the United Farm Workers Union; and in other positions. She taught television criticism and production for two years at Western Illinois University in Macomb Illinois and was employed as an assistant instructor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film while a student at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1990 Temple University Press published her book Gender Politics and MTV, which was based in part on her dissertation "Female Address in Music Videos." The following year she edited the collection The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media. Both before and after the appearance of these volumes she published a number of articles on women and popular culture and presented papers on the same subject at a variety of academic symposia and conferences.

She currently lives in Los Angeles California.

-- based on a vita bound into a copy of her dissertation now located in Special Collections

Scope and Content

Thirty eight (38) VHS format T-120 videotapes containing copies of television programs. Programs represented include MTV Awards, American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, the Phil Donahue show, the Johnny Carson Show, MTV episodes, and the Live Aid concert. Artists represented include Madonna, Pat Benatar, Janet Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, the Eurhythmics, the Rolling Stones, and Billy Joel--but include much more. The majority of the programs were taken from the air between August 1983 and March 1988. (Two video tapes received in 2008 were unplayable and two were commercial recordings that have been transferred to video holdings.)

Location

This collection is filed by accession number with other manuscript groups. The Reading Room books and commercial video tapes are searchable through the main MTSU library catalog.

Related Materials

Two books housed in the Center by Lewis (Reading Room collection) and her dissertation (special collections) can be found in the main MTSU library catalog. Also from her collection are seven (7) compact discs among the recordings of Pat Benatar on Chrysalis Records. Please also see the Lisa A. Lewis Papers, accession number 94-086, which contains research materials generated by Lewis's research on women in music videos.